Cleared Bellamy ready for recall, says Rafa

RAFAEL BENITEZ is likely to throw Craig Bellamy straight back into action to allow the Welshman to get his court room ordeal out of his mind.

The striker emerged from Cardiff magistrates’ court just three hours before Liverpool’s kick-off against Portsmouth on Wednesday, with his name cleared after being found not guilty of two assault charges.

But the Liverpool boss believes that the pressures of the five-day hearing and the nine months the case took to get to trial, had been weighing on Bellamy’s mind more than he had revealed.